Bishop Paglia blamed the pursuit of individual rights

The French Catholic Church is right to defend traditional family values, a top bishop told Vatican Radio yesterday, a day after rights groups criticised a prayer focused on families and children as homophobic.

The prayer, read out in French churches to mark the Assumption holiday, said children should “fully benefit from the love of a father and mother”, underscoring the Church’s opposition to a commitment by French President Francois Hollande to allow gay couples to marry and adopt children.

“French bishops are right to insist that children ‘grow up with a father and a mother’,” Bishop Vincenzo Paglia, head of the Vatican’s families committee, told Vatican Radio.

So that they will understand that one sex is inferior, and subordinate to the other. You can’t get that with same-sex parents. It’s seriously important.

Bishop Paglia blamed the pursuit of individual rights on a “cultural trend that idolises the rights of the individual”.

Because that interferes with the Vatican’s ability to tell everyone what to do.

PARIS (Reuters) – More children were born out of wedlock in France than to married parents for the first time in 2006, census data showed on Tuesday, in a sign the traditionally Catholic country has moved further from older social mores.

It’s dangerous, you know. If gay marriage is legalized, absolutely nothing bad will come of it, and that might make France’s scarce Catholics wonder why they bother with this fuckery. The Church would rather avoid situations in which believers are forced to think.

I doubt that they even believe that the bs that they’re saying are true. I bet they understand very well their role as stoppers of progressive change in society since that’s the main thing that they’ve been doing for quite a while now.

Oh, it’s not a problem, sailor – as I said, he does drive by comments, widely spaced (so far) – I strongly doubt that he ever sees replies, and it wouldn’t make any difference anyway. He’s like a human bot.

I believe that in France the system of support payments is such as to actively dissuade couples from marrying. But not necessarily from “those activities reserved to the holy state of matrimony” as some bishop of somewhere once phrased it.